In a message dated 3/1/98 11:25:40 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
 
<<Also, I don't know what people consider winning percentage out there.
Personally, I think it should be a the percentage of games a team played
that they WON -- not tied, not lost. After all, ties don't win
championships :-)
 
Quick computation of ranked team's records has the Tigers in 12th for win%:
(all records taken March 1 from UCHO)
>>
 
Ties go into overtime in championships....tying a game gives you the
opportunity. Losers go home with nothing. Here are the latest "didn't-lose-
and-not-going-home-yet" % #'s by USCHO in red.
 
Rk Team                GP  W- L- T  Win%      Rk     RPI  Rk  PWR
 1 Michigan State      34 26- 4- 4 0.8235  2 | 0.6213  1 | 23
 2 North Dakota        32 26- 5- 1 0.8281  1 | 0.6203  2 | 22
 3 Boston University   31 24- 5- 2 0.8065  3 | 0.6155  3 | 21
 4 Michigan            34 24- 9- 1 0.7206  5 | 0.5899  4 | 20
 5 New Hampshire       30 21- 8- 1 0.7167  6 | 0.5811  5 | 19
 6 Boston College      32 20- 8- 4 0.6875  7 | 0.5702  6 | 17
 7 Yale                27 20- 6- 1 0.7593  4 | 0.5598  7 | 17
 8 Clarkson            27 17- 7- 3 0.6852  8 | 0.5590  8 | 17
 9 Ohio State          32 19-11- 2 0.6250 10 | 0.5491 10 | 15
10 Wisconsin           32 19-12- 1 0.6094 11 | 0.5383 13 | 13
*11 Colorado College    34 20-11- 3 0.6324  *9 | 0.5437 11 | 12
 
If you still think CC is mediocre...thats ok. We are a couple wins ahead of
where we were last year when alot of people thought we were "mediocre". I
guess we were...becuse we had the longest "tie" in the history of college
hockey last year;-) We ended up going essentially as far as anyone in the
country....losing only to eventual champeen NoDak.
 
BTW, this is not a prediction. Anyone could lose in the first round. It just
happens.
 
Randy May
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